MPs on the House of Commons ethics committee voted during a meeting on Oct. 3 to launch an investigation into public funds used to build infrastructure at the illegal border crossing of Roxham Road in Quebec.
“We’re talking about spending over the past five years of half a billion dollars around Lacolle and Roxham Road,” said Conservative MP Pierre Paul-Hus during the meeting. “There are people involved in this, hidden contracts. They invoke national security. It’s ridiculous.”
The Roxham Road border crossing, located in Quebec south of Montreal, is used by a large number of illegal immigrants seeking asylum in Canada. Since 2017, the number of illegal immigrants attempting to enter Canada from New York state through Roxham Road has risen by 13 percent, according to the RCMP….